Talk:Heart block

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ECG

It would probably be a lot easier to understand if someone posted the appropriate ECG with each block. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.125.198.182 (talk) 20:53, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mobitz II block

The {{dubious}} template was not placed by me; I'd like to figure out why it's there. Is the categorization of Mobitz II block under under both AV node block and infra-Hisian block the dubious part? Or is it more a sourcing issue? --SoledadKabocha (talk) 03:31, 17 May 2015 (UTC) Done --Iztwoz (talk) 06:35, 10 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Types of heart block

Would it be possible to add a normal ECG to the "Types of heart block" section? It would be good to visually compare with the pathological cases? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjshulman (talk • contribs) 18:52, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WikiMed: Medical Student Work Plan, Nov 2019

Hello! I am a 4th year medical student from Vanderbilt and I will be editing this Wikipedia page over the next 4 weeks as part of a class. My goals are:

Improve classification section, adding in photographs as to where specific lesions are for the different types of heart block
Edit introduction section to be more readable. Right now there is a lot of specific information within this section that would be better served in context sections.
Create a section on Signs/symptoms
Create a section on Causes of heart block
Create a section on Treatment

Here is my timeline to help me achieve the proposed goals:

By 11/1: Update citations to ensure links are still working; Find additional resources to use to update the page
By 11/8: Update the "type of heart block" section to make it less technical and add more information; Add pathophysiology section (not sure if this will be stand alone, or if it will be incorporated into the types of heart block section)
By 11/15: Create signs/symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment sections
By 11/22: Edit page based upon peer review feedback

Aspects of workplan:

Why this one? Include WP rating scale? How fit with your interests? WP rating C; Classified as mid-importance, but is supported by the Cardiology Task Force who ranked it as high-importance; Have some experience with patients who have had heart block and converted into higher degree heart block (patient with Mobitz II into complete heart block); although I am going into anesthesiology, I have always found cardiology very interesting
Initial analysis: The introduction section is very dense, while the contents sections are very short; only 5 total references; information is quite technical (i.e. SA nodal blocks, AV nodal blocks, infra-Hisian blocks); the only content section is types of heart block, nothing for causes, treatment, pathophysiology, etc.
Overall organizational changes: Reorganize the page to have less information in the introduction area, and add more to the content sections; right now the intro section includes information on treatment and types
What will I add? Augment? I am going to focus on the classification, signs/symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment
What will you remove? decrease coverage of? Remove some of the information in the introduction section, will see how it can better fit within the content sections

I look forward to working on this page, and am excited for any feedback that you may have! KateF87 (talk) 21:18, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What is really needed is citations. There are huge masses of text with no citations whatsoever, and read like they are written by someone who doesn't know how Wikipedia works. The only place for that style is in popular magazine articles, or textbooks written by cardiologists. If there were one source per paragraph, it would not be excessive. JohndanR (talk) 13:59, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]